The criminal justice system is
broken. The United States incarcerates a higher percentage of
its citizens per capita than any other industrialized
nation.
This week we talk with one of
the champions of sentencing reform, Senator Cory Booker, about a
bill that is currently before the Senate. This bill is the
most comprehensive reform of federal sentencing guidelines in
decades, potentially affecting thousands of lives. We will talk
with Senator Booker, and then with the National Council of
Churches' Rev. Aundreia Alexander, about this bill and the problems
it seeks to address.
I spoke with Senator Booker in
his office this week. The Senator has been working on
reforming the criminal justice system for years, and was pleased to
speak with us today about the horrific problems in our courts and
prisons, the effect incarceration is having on communities and our
entire society, and on finding ways in which the problems might be
solved.
